The janitor's face became very ugly, and he said: "Don't you dare to call the name of Grandpa Guo, but this little official is right, but the little official is ...... What's that, it's better to respect Grandpa Guo! ”

Fu Guibao snorted, looked at the back of He Lanmin, and said, "Compared with me, it's only half a catty and eight taels!" After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and was about to go to the house.

The janitor thought: "Half a catty, he is also a grandfather of the country?" Is there a small prince like him in Beijing, I haven't heard of it before! ”

Li Rizhi also entered the gate of the mansion and said to the gatekeeper: "This official is the person assigned by Xu Xiang to solve your family's case, you go and call the person in charge of the mansion to come and talk back, and the official wants to check the population of the mansion." ”

The janitor was stunned, obviously he didn't think that the government would send someone to the house to check the population, the previous officials were very face-saving to the Helan family, so they never sent someone to come, which Cheng thought that today Helan Min just left before his feet, and an official came to check on the back foot.

Li Rizhi walked through the courtyard, directly entered the main hall, and sat down in the center, this move was very unkind, but there was no need to be polite, Fu Guibao and Cheng Zizi sat on both sides of him.

Cheng Zizi said: "Xiaojie, you just said that half a catty and eight taels, but you are the grandfather of the country, you are just a first-class outsider, how can this compare?" ”

Fu Guibao said: "I'm talking about looks!" ”

Outside the main hall, a person walked briskly, looking about forty years old, wearing a dark blue satin robe, with a dignified face, and it seemed that he should be a housekeeper or something.

This man stood outside the threshold of the main hall, bowed his hand, and said: "I have seen three officials, the villain is the housekeeper in the house, and the official calls the villain Helanfu, I don't know what the official is doing when he arrives, and how the villain needs to cooperate." ”

This person doesn't speak particularly decently, but there is no shortage of etiquette, it is estimated that he is not happy, after all, if a few people come to someone's house, saying that they want to check the population, they will not be happy in their hearts.

Li Rizhi had a warrant from Xu Jingzong, so he didn't need to care about the mood of a housekeeper, he took out the warrant, and then said to Helan Fu: "Go and gather all the people in your family here, including the female dependents, the official has something to ask them one by one, go quickly!" ”

After a pause, he added: "Or you can delay for a while, and then send someone to find Helan Minzhi to come back, and let Helan Minzhi go to Xu Xiang to ask for an explanation, of course, he will go to ask for an explanation, but this official still has to check the population of your mansion." ”

Helan Fu's face turned red, as if he was drunk, he just thought so in his heart, he wanted to move Helan Minzhi, a rescuer, but was told by Li Rizhi, which also shows that Li Rizhi is not afraid of He Lan Minzhi.

Helan Fu couldn't figure out what Li Rizhi's origin was, he didn't dare to resist, so he had to agree and go back to call someone.

The three of them sat in the hall, and Fu Guibao said dissatisfiedly: "I didn't even bring a pot of tea, this family doesn't know how to be hospitable!" ”

Cheng Zizi said: "How can they be in the mood to pour tea for you now, even if they pour it for you, do you dare to drink it, aren't you afraid that they will spit in the tea!" ”

Fu Guibao nodded and said, "It makes sense, you actually said that I am not thirsty at all!" ”

Li Rizhi said with a smile: "If you think about the other party's saliva, you can quench your thirst, but it is similar to Wangmei's thirst, so what do you think of not being hungry?" ”

"I can't tell you this, I'm afraid you're not hungry......"

While he was talking, there were a lot of people coming from the backyard, about forty or fifty people, men, women and children, among which the leader was a young woman of twenty-one or twelve years old, very beautiful, but quite a bit of dust, and behind this beautiful woman, there were also six or seven women of about seventeen, eighteen to twenty years old, all of them were very beautiful, and there was even a blonde woman with blue eyes and a bearded woman.

Behind this group of young and beautiful women, followed by the servants of the Helan family, these servants all had fearful expressions on their faces, and of course, the young and beautiful women in front of them also had the same expressions on their faces.

Li Rizhi can understand their feelings, the male owner was poisoned, and the female owner was arrested and put in prison as a murderer, so what will happen to them in the future must make them uneasy.

Fu Guibao snorted lightly and whispered: "Look, there is a bearded woman, who looks good, and she looks like a good person." ”

Li Rizhi also looked at the Hu woman, she was indeed very beautiful, with golden hair, two big blue eyes, snow-white skin, and a tall body, there were many Hu women like this in Chang'an, which was not unusual, but most of them were female slaves, although this Hu woman was beautifully dressed, but looking at her appearance of hiding behind others, it was estimated that she was also a female slave, but she was regarded as a concubine by Helan Anwen, so her status was higher.

Such a large group of people were waiting outside the main hall, and only the leading woman stepped over the threshold, walked in, and saluted the three people in the hall in a graceful posture, as if she had practiced it a thousand times just for this gesture of salutation, and it was flawless.

After the leading woman saluted, she said: "The folk woman Ju Xiang, I have seen three officials, I don't know what the officials are doing when they come to the cold house?" ”

This woman named Ju Xiang's voice is very coquettish, snorting and glutinous, speaking slowly, the tail note is raised, it sounds quite tempting, as if her voice has been practiced thousands of times, she claims that the people's women should have no orders, but they are not slave girls, so she is smart and calls herself a people's woman.

Li Rizhi frowned, this chrysanthemum is so delicate, then Helan Anwen is old again, can his body and bones support it, even if he is not poisoned, he will have to die of exhaustion in two years!

But Fu Guibao on the side became excited and said: "Your name is Ju Xiang, it is really fragrant, you are a good person and a good woman at first glance!" "That's not a very dignified statement.

Following this compliment, Ju Xiang saluted again and said, "Thank you for your praise!" As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows at Fu Guibao.

Fu Guibao was overjoyed, and was about to laugh a few more words, but when he saw Li Rizhi glaring at him angrily, he had to swallow the words back into his stomach.

Li Rizhi glared at him, then turned his head and said to Ju Xiang: "Who are you in charge of Helan?" ”

Ju Xiang said: "The folk woman is the first concubine room of the old man, and the lady is not in the house, so the folk woman will be in charge of the house temporarily!" ”

"Who are the people of your same status?"

Ju Xiang pointed to the seven or eight women behind her, signaling that these women were.

Li Rizhi thought to himself: "Helan Anwen is too ignorant of maintenance, he has taken so many concubines, and he is old, maybe he was not poisoned to death, but some hidden disease, plus some external factors, and he died because of this!" ”

He asked: "Then you can be regarded as the second lady, the official asked you, in the days when your lord was killed and your wife was arrested, did you escape from the house?" ”

Ju Xiang shook her head and said: "No one has escaped, they are all here, everyone in this house, including the women, has a deed of sale, where can they escape to?" ”

Datang's punishment for fugitive slaves is extremely severe, if Helan Anwen's death really has nothing to do with the people in the house, then there is really no need for them to escape.

Li Rizhi pointed to the women behind Ju and said, "Come up one by one, the official has something to ask." ”